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Subject: [Leica] Not a PAW - The Leavings, Western Ghost Towns
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Wed Feb 15 11:07:50 2006
References: <C018E194.C60A%bdcolen@comcast.net>

Probably shooting at chicken hawks;^)

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies


On Feb 15, 2006, at 1:48 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> Damn that Dick Cheney! :-)
>
>
> On 2/15/06 1:40 PM, "GREG LORENZO" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> bruce <bruce@ralgo.nl> writes in part:
>>
>>> Hillbilly-land?
>>>
>>
>> Hill people yes. In fact as I was shooting the ghost town, which  
>> is high up in
>> the hills of Montana some yahoo lets loose with a high powered  
>> rifle over my
>> head at a bull elk.
>>
>> This was not during hunting season.
>>
>> I took this as an invitation to leave quickly which I did.
>>
>>
>>> Greg, have you tried cropping-out the road/track and coming tighter
>>> in on the right. My eye is distracted by the lightness of the
>>> track ............ away from the vehicle (focus point) and the
>>> back- ground.
>>>
>>
>> I actually have some tighter in-camera shots and some wider shots  
>> showing more
>> of the road out of town. (I've got to find all the negatives.) It  
>> looks to me
>> like this old jalopy was leaving town, died on the roadway and was  
>> pushed into
>> the bushes. Most likely this occured in the 1930's or 40's.
>>
>> The local mine ran out of ore in the late 19th century.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>>
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